Eating out (and drinking) in Chiang Mai - our favourite pastimesOur favourite thing in Chiang Mai is eating out and it's also a favourite thing for most Thais. We reckon that if we eat out in a different restaurant every night for the rest of our lives, we still won't visit every cafe or restaurant in this city! Every week, new venues open and unsuccessful ones
close. It's almost impossible to keep up with it.
We have found restaurants serving English Fish and Chips and steak and ale pie. We know where the best burgers and delicious green curries can be found. We know where you can get a superb Thai meal for 25 baht and a gourmet dish for 300 baht plus. In Thailand, eat Thai foodOf course, if you like Thai food, the best place to find it is - yes, you've guessed - Chiang Mai, Thailand! However, Northern Thai food is supposedly spicier than elsewhere in Thailand so, if you want the roof of your mouth seared off, try some of the tastier curries that you can find almost anywhere here. The word for spicy in Thai is "ped" and the interrogative word is "mai", so to ask if it's spicy you should say "ped mai krap"? If you want to ask for it to be not spicy, say "mai ped, noi krap", the last two words being the polite form of "please" and "mai" in this case is used as the negative.A good dish to start
with is 'Pad Thai', a noodle dish with shrimps, chicken or pork,
depending on taste. Usually not too spicy!
Some restaurants will automatically tone down the chillies for foreign customers, especially those establishments that serve "farang" food, so if you want the authentic cuisine, use a restaurant that the Thais frequent. Warning - be careful with the little side dishes of sauce that often accompany the dish. Some of these are quite lethal. Have a little taste first, and I mean LITTLE before adding to your dish. I could easily fill this website with recommendations for restaurants
For gourmets and people who just enjoy dining out, Chiang Mai is a paradise! Why not tell us about your favourite cafe or restaurant in Chiang Mai, or a memorable meal, or anything really! |
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Mee Mee's Cafe
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From roadside stalls selling
everything from traditional Thai dishes to banana roti and fried
scorpions, to French and Italian cordon-bleu establishments and Indian
and Japanese cuisines, all tastes are catered for.
in Chiang Mai but that's not the purpose of this
site. Half the
pleasure of living or visiting here is exploring the huge number of
eateries here, from roadside stalls to cordon bleu, and, on the subject
of roadside stalls, try the roti sellers, who make them while you wait.
I recommend the banana roti but they make many different flavours.
Usually they add condensed milk to the mix, but I find that too sweet
myself. If you don't want condensed milk, say "mai ow nom" which means
"no milk" and if you wish, you can add "noi krap" on the end, to be
polite.
